The congressman was six minutes into his campaign speech on Pirates Cove’s outside pool deck when four protesters emerged from a hotel room onto their balcony overlooking the event. Stand Up Florida protesters shouted out garbled messages and unfurled a banner that read “Allen West is out of touch, Allen West is out of office.”

The protest groups are regulars at West events. West, R-Palm Beach Gardens, faces Jupiter Democrat Patrick Murphy in a multimillion-dollar November election. West called it the “most watched” in the country.